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Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

But nearly one - fifth of students across New York state opted out of taking the English exams when they were given last week, and more plan to skip the math tests.

New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enState's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enstate's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.

Last year, 29 percent of New York City kids were considered proficient in English and 35 percent in math on the state's challenging Common Core — aligned exams.

Tens of thousands of Illinois students — the most in recent history — sat out the state's standardized exams during the last school year as resistance to testing gained momentum nationwide, new state data show.

The New York board of regents last week swept out the state competency tests as a graduation requirement and replaced them with the tougher regents» exams traditionally geared to the state's college - bound students.

Teacher protests have accelerated in the last year because the new evaluation systems are coming online at the same time states roll out tough new exams aligned to the Common Core standards.

The new state math and reading exams, called PARCC, were administered for the first time in Illinois to third - through eighth - graders and some high school students last spring.

In the last several years, state policymakers have enacted a dizzying array of new policies on education issues ranging from assessment and accountability to cursive - handwriting and citizenship exams.

Last year, new high school equivalency exams were introduced nationwide in an effort to update the decade - old General Educational Development (GED) test and align it with new high school standards, known as the Common Core, adopted by a majority of states.

City schools» pass rates on state reading and math exams took a hit last year with the introduction of tougher new academic standards called the Common Core.

Instead of going with the cut score that was adopted by the SBAC coordinating committee last November, an unfair rating system that was adopted with the support of Governor Dannel Malloy's representatives, the Washington State Board of Education choose a new «passing» level, «where about as many kids are expected to pass the exams as passed the state's previous tests.&rState Board of Education choose a new «passing» level, «where about as many kids are expected to pass the exams as passed the state's previous tests.&rstate's previous tests.»

Brooklyn Prospect has out - performed both its host district and the New York state average on the ELA and math state exams for the last several years.

Last year, New Mexico showed the fastest rate of improvement of any state in its high school graduation rate, and a higher percentage of Latino students took and passed AP exams than in any other state.

Last year marked the first time the state administered the Badger exam, which was designed to test Wisconsin's new academic standards.

In New York, where 20 percent of students did not take the state exams, the Department of Education announced last week that they will shorten the exams for 2016.

Last summer, the Washington State Bar Association held its first round of exams in a new Limited License Legal Technician program (LLLT) aimed at bridging the access to justice gap by allowing non-lawyers to provide legal advice and assistance in limited areas, like domestic relations / family law.